CHRIS TOMLIN (and Christmas) Are Coming to Town

CHRIS TOMLIN (and Christmas) Are Coming to Town

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WANT TO GO?

Chris Tomlin Love Ran Red Tour

WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday

WHERE: Charleston Civic Center

TICKETS: $25 to $35

INFO: 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com

It's a controversy that seems to flare up every year. When is it
OK to start celebrating Christmas? There are those who say you
shouldn't get your Christmas tree until the day after Thanksgiving
and stockings are only to be hung on Christmas Eve. Others move the
starting line of the festive season a couple of weeks earlier - a
little before the end of November is fine.

A few stores had decorations and gift suggestions laid out before
the end of July and there are always a couple of people who never
take their Christmas tree down. But arguments invariably erupt about
what's proper and what's premature.

Contemporary Christian star Chris Tomlin doesn't have the answer.

Tomlin, who brings his Love Ran Red tour to the Charleston Civic
Center Tuesday night, said, "I always make fun of people who get
their stuff out before Thanksgiving - but here I have a Christmas
album, out before Halloween.

A little sheepishly, he added that he didn't really expect people
to go out and buy "Adore right away. They could, if they wanted to,
of course, but it's OK if they want to wait until after
Thanksgiving.

This is Tomlin's second Christmas record. The first was 2009's
"Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship.

"Honestly, my first Christmas record was my favorite record, so
far, he said. "There's something so special about it, so pure.

So, to try to capture that feeling a second time, Tomlin tried to
recreate part of the experience. He returned to the same church
where he recorded "Glory in the Highest, brought in some of the same
people he worked with before, including producer and frequent
musical collaborator Ed Cash, and they performed the music, live, in
front of a couple of hundred people.

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